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Which way, western man?

I'm way past the point of stressing about this team. I will follow the team to watch certain players but I've just grown to accept the worst case scenario.
 
I'm way past the point of stressing about this team. I will follow the team to watch certain players but I've just grown to accept the worst case scenario.
It’s like the SpongeBob episode where he continually rips his pants.

Commentator: “Surf's up in the Goo Lagoon. And here comes Larry, doing his trademark lay-back. There goes Sandy, hanging ten, fingers, that is. There goes SpongeBob... [rip] ...ripping his pants again.”

I’m that way with the Raiders. No matter the lead…whenever they have it…I always expect them to find a way to pull the loss out of the jaws of victory. To feed off that commentator, “There goes the Raiders blowing this game again.”
 
Mick Akers
@mickakers
The Las Vegas Stadium Authority unanimously approves the use of $75M for the Raiders planned $158M north plaza project. The money comes out of a fund set up as part of SB1 to pay for stadium and infrastructure upgrades and UNLV revenue payments.



Bill Williamson
@BWilliamsonNFL
Six years into it and major improvements are happening in Vegas. You couldn’t get them to open a can of air freshener in Oakland.
 
Josh Chambers
@JoshChambers
Rich Gannon explains that he knew he wasn't the most talented Quarterback so he made the decision to never let anyone outwork him

“I had some really good role models of what it meant to be a hard worker. I think the key to my success, I wasn’t the most talented. I wasn’t the biggest. I wasn’t the strongest. I didn’t have the greatest arm. But I was convinced not to let anybody outwork me.”

“When I came to the Raiders in ’99, that was really my philosophy. That was really my mindset. I thought that was what was going to help me help this team and this organization the most. Coming in and being passionate, dedicated, tough, gritty.”

“Nothing ever came easy for me. Especially early in my career, I never felt like I got the opportunity that I really deserved. It really wasn’t until late in my career.”

“I was probably 33 years old when Al Davis and Jon Gruden gave me that opportunity. I remember sitting in Jon’s office. He said, ‘You want to do this?’ I said, ‘Yeah.’”

“He said, ‘We’re either going to succeed together or we’re going to fail together, but we’re going to do it together.’”

 
Watch as the Arbor View High School football team recreated iconic plays from the Raiders’ Super Bowl XI victory during halftime of Preseason Week 3 against the San Francisco 49ers.

 
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